Work Quotes — page 56

The responsibility for progress rests not only on the Government, but on every man and woman in the country. The Government can go no faster in progress than the people will allow them to do. Willing co-operation in new methods is …

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

In this work I have attempted to treat economy as a calculus of pleasure and pain, and have sketched out,almost irrespective of previous opinions, the form which the science,as it seems to me, must ultimately take.

I commenced work in , beginning with my own private residence... as a physician might try his own medicine, carrying out my ideas by building a construction four stories in height, practically with no beams, using clay and cement.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

though custom has dulled us to it, it is a strange and unnatural thing that men who wish to labor, in order to satisfy their wants, cannot find the opportunity

Let no Fellow-Craft imagine that the work of the lowly and uninfluential is not worth the doing.

In the world of thought a man’s rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the …

I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.

[H]alf a dozen workers who shirk their work… will be put in prison. In another place they will be put to cleaning latrines. In a third place they will be provided with ‘yellow tickets’ after they have served their time, so that everyone …

They remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be granted. But "a living dog is better than a dead lion." Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work, is at least a caged and toothless …

I am just one of yourselves, who has been called to special work for the country at this time.

yet the produce of the whole labour of the society is so great, that all are often abundantly supplied, and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and …

Have we not hereditary possessions in our just laws, our free and nobly developed constitution, our rich literature and philosophy, incomparably above material wealth, and which we are beyond all things bound to maintain, improve, and hand …

[F]irst attempts... were... in simple concrete. But I soon found that no arch work could be done with concrete... so well as it could be accomplished with s... laid in , if the material and process are well adjusted.

and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is not only more important to abolish land monopoly than to get rid of the Chinese; but to abolish land monopoly will be to make short work of the Chinese question. Clear out the land-grabber and the Chinaman must …

The rest that follows labor should be sweeter than the rest which follows rest.

The test of the worth of work is its effect on the worker. If it degrade him, it is bad; if it ennoble him, it is good.

It is enough to give any one a sense of sardonic amusement to see the way in which the people generally, not only in my own country but elsewhere, gauge the work purely by the fact that it succeeded. If I had not brought about peace I …

Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly—it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort …